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Hypnotherapy Scripts is an essential practice book for any hypnotherapist who likes the use of metaphor. It is filled with magical mind stretching metaphors and very straightforward but powerful direct suggestions.

The book offers a clear description of hypnotic techniques and experiences and their therapeutic potential within the clinical setting. The metaphors have a very magical and soothing quality that would induce the subject to relate to them very easily. The poetic quality of each script gives the client the ability to relate the metaphor to his/her particular issue in a very poignant way.

This book not only explains the rationale for every step in the hypnotherapeutic process, it also contains sample scripts for each step. This is a revised edition which incorporates recent research and writings on the role of the unconscious processes, wellness, and positive psychology along with new metaphor scripts and disorders not included in the first edition.

There is also a very powerful companion audiocassette for this book called An Orientation to the Trance Experience. It provides a fascinating and instructive demonstration of Neo- Ericksonian hypnotherapy, highlighting the significance of timing, rhythm and pauses.

The following two books have been highlighted as one of the authors Jack Elias
was a keynote speaker at the The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (APHP) Conference in October 2006.

This section will bring to your notice books that are essential reading for practising hypnotherapists and students. We will also highlight books that are related to forthcoming professional conferences and events.

Customers and visitors to the Hypnosis Bookshop web site are invited to submit their own reviews of books they feel would be of particular value to others.

Jack Elias is the founder and director of the Institute of Therapeutic Learning based in Seattle US. He is very highly regarded in the world of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. He runs training courses and distance learning courses on transpersonal hypnotherapy which incorporate a broad base of NLP and psychotherapy. There is also a strong flavour of integrity and spirituality in his presentation.

Finding True Magic is the second and updated edition of a very comprehensive easy to understand manual for hypnotherapists. It explores philosophy, metaphysics and Eastern wisdom and their relationship to hypnotherapeutic healing. Jack Elias is the founder and director for the Institute of Therapeutic Learning in Seattle.

This is an excellent book that takes our learning to new realms of thinking and understanding in terms of the subconscious mind and its relationship with the universe.

Quotes about this book:

‘This book raises the whole idea of therapy to new levels of application and consideration. It is a book on Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and NLP, with a strong emphasis on the word Transpersonal. The result is a book that is no “bag of tools” for the therapeutic technician; it is a palette for the therapeutic artist; and, like all genuinely elegant things, it is both simple and easy to comprehend, yet full of real information and direction that is eminently practical’.

Filled with extraordinary stories of Ceci's own Sacred encounters, and with guidelines to contemplate and to cultivate your own, Sacred Visitations. It is a very spiritual book which can help us in our own quest for enlightenment and understanding.

The book instructs readers in how to “Outsmart Your Mind” using the 5 Steps of Sacred Awareness - easy steps that readers of any spiritual orientation can use to unravel their sacred inner experiences and become more spiritually awake.

Ceci Miller, who is married to Jack Elias, is an established author who also wrote or co-authored the following titles:

The Mantra Is a Prayer to God
Walking the Path with Neela
Writing from the Body: For Writers, Artists & Dreamers - John Lee with Ceci Miller-Kritsberg
The Invisible Wound: A New Approach to Healing Childhood Sexual Trauma - W. Kritsberg with Ceci Miller-Kritsberg

This book also has a companion set of CDs which take you through Ceci’s journeys and then on through the 5 Sacred Steps of Awareness.